The economicalness of apple production in view of post harvest technology

dc.contributor.authorSzabó, Viktor
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T10:53:30Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T10:53:30Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-17
dc.description.abstractThis study analyses how the level of postharvest technology’s development influences the economic efficiency of apple production with the help of a deterministic simulation model based on primary data gathering in producer undertakings. To accomplish our objectives and to support our hypotheses three processing plant types are included in the model: firstly apple production with no postharvest and prompt sale after the harvest, secondly parallel production and storage combined with an extended selling period and thirdly production and entire postharvest infrastructure (storage, sorting-ranking, packing) with the highest level of goods production and continuous sales. Based on our results it can be stated that the parallel production (plantation) and cold storage, so the second case is proved to be totally inefficient, considering that the establishment of a cold storage carries enormously high costs with resulting a relative low plus profit compared to the first type of processing plant. The reason for this is that this type is selling bulk goods without sorting-grading or packaging; storage itself – as a means of continuously servicing the market - is not covered properly by the consumers. Absolute efficiency ranking cannot be established regarding the other two processing plants: plantation without post-harvest infrastructure resulting lower NPV, but a higher IRR, DPP and PI as developing a plantation and a whole post-harvest infrastructure. Former processing plant type is favourable considering efficiency ratios describing capital adequacy, while the latter is in terms of income generating capacity.en
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dc.identifier.citationActa Agraria Debreceniensis, No. 63 (2015) , 125-131
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/63/1847
dc.identifier.issn2416-1640
dc.identifier.issue63
dc.identifier.jatitleActa agrar. Debr.
dc.identifier.jtitleActa Agraria Debreceniensis
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/315724en
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/actaagrar/article/view/1847
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.subjectappleen
dc.subjecteconomic efficiencyen
dc.subjectpost-harvesten
dc.subjectapple producing processing plant typeen
dc.titleThe economicalness of apple production in view of post harvest technologyen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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